Tagging for activist ends and strategic ephemerality: creating the Sex Work Database as an activist digital archive

References

• Ajamu, X., Topher Campbell, and Mary Stevens. 2009. “Love and Lubrication in the Archives, or Rukus!: A Black Queer Archive for the United Kingdom.” Archivaria 68 (Fall): 271–294.
   Google Scholar
• Allard, Danielle, Greg Bak, and Shawna Ferris. 2014. “Community-led Participatory Archiving: Lessons from the Digital Archives and Marginalized Communities Project.” Association of Canadian Archivists, University of Victoria, Victoria, BC, June 28.
   Google Scholar
• Allard, Danielle, and Shawna Ferris. 2015. “Politics, Marginalized Communities, and the Power of Tagging: Creating Social Justice Spaces in the Missing Women and Sex Work Database/Archive Project.” Library Trends 64 (1): 20 pp.
   Google Scholar
• Anderson, Kim. 2000. “Death Culture.” Canadian Women’s Studies 20 (1): 77–96.
   Google Scholar
• Barry, Kathleen L. 1995. The Prostitution of Sexuality: The Global Exploitation of Women. New York: NYU Press.
   Google Scholar
• Bhopal, Kalawant. 2010. “Gender, Identity and Experience: Researching Marginalised Groups.” Women’s Studies International Forum 33 (3): 188–195.
   Web of Science ®Google Scholar
• Boler, Megan, ed. 2008. Digital Media and Democracy: Tactics in Hard Times. Boston, MA: MIT.
   Google Scholar
• Bowker, Geoffrey C., and Susan Leigh Star. 2000. Sorting Things Out: Classification and its Consequences. Cambridge, MA: MIT Press.
   Google Scholar
• Brown, Leslie, and Susan Strega. 2005a. “Transgressive Possibilities.” In Research as Resistance: Critical, Indigenous, and Anti-oppressive Approaches, edited by Leslie Brown and Susan Strega, 1–18. Toronto, ON: Canadian Scholars’ Press.
   Google Scholar
• Brown, Leslie, and Susan Strega. 2005b. Research as Resistance: Critical, Indigenous, and Anti-oppressive Approaches. Toronto, ON: Canadian Scholars’ Press.
   Google Scholar
• Canada. Supreme Court of Canada. 2013. McLachlin, Beverley, Louis LeBel, Morris J. Fish, Rosalie Silverman Abella, Rothstein, Thomas Albert Cromwell, Michael J. Moldaver, Andromache Karakatsanis, and Richard Wagner. Canada (Attorney General) v. Bedford, 2013 SCC 34788. Accessed November 25, 2015. http://scc-csc.lexum.com/decisia-scc-csc/scc-csc/scc-csc/en/item/13389/index.do
   Google Scholar
• Carter, Rodney. 2006. “Of Things Said and Unsaid: Power, Archival Silences, and Power in Silence.” Archivaria 61: 215–233.
   Google Scholar
• CASWLR: Canadian Alliance for Sex Work Law Reform. 2015.
   Google Scholar
• Davies, Lyell, and Elena Razlogova. 2013. “Framing the Contested History of Digital Culture.” Radical History Review 117: 5–31.
   Web of Science ®Google Scholar
• Dei, George Sefa. 2000. “Rethinking the Role of Indigenous Knowledges in the Academy.” International Journal of Inclusive Education 4 (2): 111–132.
   Google Scholar
• Ditmore, Melissa Hope, Antonia Levy, and Alys Willman, eds. 2010. Sex Work Matters: Exploring Money, Power and Intimacy in the Sex Industry. New York, NY: Zed Books.
   Google Scholar
• DMSC: Dubar Mahila Smanwaya Committee. 2015. Accessed November 25, 2015. http://durbar.org
   Google Scholar
• Doe, Jane. 2013. “Are Feminists Leaving Women Behind? The Casting of Sexually Assaulted and Sex Working Women.” In Selling Sex: Experience, Advocacy, and Research on Sex Work in Canada, edited by Emily van der Meulen, Elya M. Durisin and Victoria Love, 181–197. Vancouver, BC: University of British Columbia Press.
   Google Scholar
• Durisin, Elya M. 2009–2010. “Perspectives on Rape in the Canadian Sex Industry: Navigating the Terrain between Sex Work as Labour and Sex Work as Violence Paradigms.” Canadian Woman Studies 28 (1): 128–135.
   Google Scholar
• Dworkin, Andrea. 1992. “Prostitution and Male Supremacy.” Nostatusquo.com. Accessed November 25, 2015. http://www.nostatusquo.com/ACLU/dworkin/MichLawJourI.html
   Google Scholar
• Eichhorn, Kate. 2014. “Beyond Digitisation: A Case Study of Three Contemporary Feminist Collections.” Archives and Manuscripts 42 (3): 227–237.
   Google Scholar
• Eichhorn, Kate. 2010. “D.I.Y. Collectors, Archiving Scholars, and Activist Librarians: Legitimizing Feminist Knowledge and Cultural Production Since 1990.” Women’s Studies 39 (6): 622–646.
   Web of Science ®Google Scholar
• Ermine, Willie, Raven Sinclair, and Bonnie Jeffery. 2004. The Ethics of Research Involving Indigenous Peoples: Report of the Indigenous Peoples’ Health Research Centre. Indigenous Peoples’ Health Research Centre. Accessed November 25, 2015. http://iphrc.ca/assets/Documents/ethics_review_iphrc.pdf
   Google Scholar
• Faraday, Fay, and Janine Benedict. 2011. Factum of the Intervener Women’s Coalition. Accessed November 25, 2015. http://casac.ca/sites/default/files/Factum%20-%20Womens%20Coalition.pdf
   Google Scholar
• Ferris, Shawna. 2015. Street Sex Work and Canadian Cities: Resisting a Dangerous Order. Edmonton, AB: University of Alberta Press.
   Google Scholar
• Fireweed. 1999. “Stella Discussions.” Fireweed: Sex Work Issue 65: 73–77.
   Google Scholar
• Gilfoyle, Timothy J. 1994. “Prostitutes in the Archives: Problems and Possibilities in Documenting the History of Sexuality.” The American Archivist 57 (3): 514–527.
   PubMedGoogle Scholar
• Gonzalez, Vernadette V., and Robyn Magalit Rodiriguez. 2003. “Filipina.com: Wives, Workers, and Whores on the Cyberfrontier.” In Asian America.Net: Ethnicity, Nationalism, and Cyberspace, edited by Rachel C. Lee and Sau-ling Cynthia Wong, 215–234. New York, NY: Routledge.
   Google Scholar
• Hallgrimsdottir, Helga Kristen, Rachel Phillips, and Cecilia Benoit. 2006. “Fallen Women and Rescued Girls: Social Stigma and Media Narratives of the Sex Industry in Victoria, B.C., from 1980 to 2005.” Canadian Review of Sociology and Anthropology 43 (3): 265–280.
   Google Scholar
• Hallgrimsdottir, Helga Kristen, Rachel Phillips, Cecilia Benoit, and Kevin Walby. 2008. “Sporting Girls, Streetwalkers, and Inmates of Houses of Ill Repute: Media Narratives and the Historical Mutability of Prostitution Stigmas.” Sociological Perspectives 51: 119–138.
   Web of Science ®Google Scholar
• Hardt, Michael, and Antonio Negri. 2000. Empire. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press.
   Google Scholar
• Harris, Verne. 2002. “The Archival Sliver: Power, Memory, and Archives in South Africa.” Archival Science 2: 63–86.
   Google Scholar
• Harris, Verne. 2007. Archives and Justice: A South African Perspective. Chicago, IL: Society of American Archivists.
   Google Scholar
• Hunt, Sarah. 2013. “More Than a Poster Campaign: Redefining Colonial Violence.” Decolonization: Indigeneity, Education & Society, February 14. Accessed November 25, 2015. http://decolonization.wordpress.com/2013/02/14/more-than-a-poster-campaign-redefining-colonial-violence/
   Google Scholar
• ICRSE: International Committee for the Rights of Sex Workers in Europe. 2005. The Declaration of the Rights of Sex Workers in Europe. Accessed November 25, 2015. http://www.sexworkeurope.org/resources/declaration-rights-sex-workers-europe
   Google Scholar
• It Starts With Us: Support for Missing and Murdered Indigenous Women and Their Families. 2015. “Background.” Accessed November 25, 2015. http://www.itstartswithus-mmiw.com/background
   Google Scholar
• Jeffrey, Leslie Ann, and Gayle MacDonald. 2006. Sex Workers in the Maritimes Talk Back. Vancouver, BC: UBC Press.
   Google Scholar
• Jimerson, Randall C. 2009. Archives Power: Memory, Accountability, and Social Justice. Chicago, IL: Society of American Archivists.
   Google Scholar
• Jiwani, Yasmin, and Mary Lynn Young. 2006. “Missing and Murdered Women: Reproducing Marginality in News Discourses.” Canadian Journal of Communication 31: 895–917.
   Google Scholar
• Kendall, Elizabeth, Naomi Sunderland, Leda Barnett, Glenda Nalder, and Christopher Matthews. 2011. “Beyond the Rhetoric of Participatory Research in Indigenous Communities: Advances in Australia Over the Last Decade.” Qualitative Health Research 21 (12): 1719–1728.
   PubMed Web of Science ®Google Scholar
• Kleiss, Karen. 2008. “Witnesses Link Victim with Accused Prostitute Killer.” Calgary Herald, April 8.
   Google Scholar
• Lazarus, Lisa, and Kathleen N. Deering. 2012. “Occupation Stigma as a Primary Barrier to Health Care for Street-based Sex Workers in Canada.” Culture, Health & Sexuality 14 (2): 139–150.
   PubMed Web of Science ®Google Scholar
• MacKinnon, Catharine A. 1993. “Prostitution and Civil Rights.” Michigan Journal of Gender & Law 1: 13–31.
   Google Scholar
• McNeill, Maggie. 2015. “Introduction.” The Honest Courtesan. Blog. Accessed November 25, 2015. https://maggiemcneill.wordpress.com/about/
   Google Scholar
• Mitra, Ananda. 2001. “Marginal Voices in Cyberspace.” New Media & Society 3 (1): 29–48.
   Web of Science ®Google Scholar
• Nagle, Jill. Ed. 1997. Whores and Other Feminists. New York, NY: Routledge.
   Google Scholar
• NMS: No More Silence. 2015. Blog. Accessed November 25, 2015. http://www.nomoresilence-nomoresilence.blogspot.ca
   Google Scholar
• NWAC: Native Women’s Association of Canada. 2010. What Their Stories Tell Us: Research Findings From the Sisters in Spirit Initiative. Accessed November 25, 2015. http://www.nwac.ca/media/release/21-04-10
   Google Scholar
• Ontario. 2010. Ontario Superior Court of Justice: Himel, Susan J. Bedford v. Canada, 2012 ONSC 4264 (CanLII). Accessed November 25, 2015. http://www.canlii.org/en/on/onsc/doc/2010/2010onsc4264/2010onsc4264.html
   Google Scholar
• Ontario. 2012. Court of Appeal for Ontario: David A. Doherty, Marc Rosenberg, Kathryn N. Feldman, James C. MacPherson, and Eleanore A. Cronk JJ.A. Canada (Attorney General) v. Bedford, 2012 ONCA 186. Accessed November 25, 2015. http://www.canlii.org/en/on/onca/doc/2012/2012onca186/2012onca186.html
   Google Scholar
• Pearce, Maryanne. 2013. “An Awkward Silence: Missing and Murdered Vulnerable Women and the Canadian Justice System.” Dissertation. University of Ottawa, Ottawa, Ontario, Canada. Accessed November 25, 2015. https://www.ruor.uottawa.ca/handle/10393/26299
   Google Scholar
• Pheterson, Gail. 1996. The Prostitution Prism. Amsterdam: Amsterdam University Press.
   Google Scholar
• Pivot Legal Society Sex Work Subcommittee. 2004. Voices for Dignity: A Call to End the Harms Caused by Canada’s Sex Trade Laws. Vancouver: Pivot Legal Society. Accessed November 25, 2015. http://d3n8a8pro7vhmx.cloudfront.net/pivotlegal/legacy_url/273/voicesfordignity.pdf?1345765612
   Google Scholar
• rahbth. 2013. “Unhappy Hooking, or Why I’m Giving Up on Being Positive.” Autocannibal. May 10. Accessed November 25, 2015. http://autocannibalism.wordpress.com/2013/05/10/unhappy-hooking-or-why-im-giving-up-on-being-positive/
   Google Scholar
• Razack, Sherene. 2002. “Gendered Racial Violence and Spatialized Justice: The Murder of Pamela George.” In Race, Space, and the Law: Unmapping a White Settler Society, edited by S. Razack, 121–156. Toronto, ON: Between the Lines.
   Google Scholar
• Rekart, Michael. 2005. “Sex-work Harm Reduction.” Lancet 366 (9503): 2123–2134.
   PubMed Web of Science ®Google Scholar
• Shahjahan, Riyad A. 2005. “Mapping the Field of Anti-colonial Discourse to Understand Issues of Indigenous Knowledges: Decolonizing Praxis.” McGill Journal of Education 40 (2): 213–240.
   Google Scholar
• Shahmanesh, Maryam, Vikram Patel, David Mabey, and Frances Cowan. 2008. “Effectiveness of Interventions or the Prevention of HIV and other Sexually Transmitted Infections in Female Sex Workers in a Resource Poor Setting: A Systematic Review.” Tropical Medicine & International Health 13 (5): 659–679.
   PubMed Web of Science ®Google Scholar
• Shannon, Kate, Vicky Bright, Shari Allinott, and Debbie Alexson. 2007. “Community-based HIV Prevention Research Among Substance-using Women in Survival Sex Work.” Harm Reduction Journal 4 (20). Accessed November 25, 2015. http://www.harmreductionjournal.com/content/4/1/20
   Google Scholar
• Shannon, Kate, Thomas Kerr, Shari Allinott, Jill Chettiar, Jean Shoveller, and Mark W. Tyndall. 2008. “Social and Structural Violence and Power Relations in Mitigating HIV Risk of Drug-using Women in Survival Sex Work.” Social Science & Medicine 66 (4): 911–921.
   PubMed Web of Science ®Google Scholar
• Shaver, Francis M. 2005. “Sex Work Research: Methodological and Ethical Challenges.” Journal of Interpersonal Violence 20 (3): 296–319.
   PubMed Web of Science ®Google Scholar
• Shilton, Kate, and Ramesh Srinivasan. 2007. “Counterpoint: Participatory Appraisal and Arrangement for Multicultural Archival Collections.” Archivaria 63: 87–101.
   Google Scholar
• Smith, Andrea. 2005. Conquest: Sexual Violence and American Indian Genocide. Cambridge, MA: South End Press.
   Google Scholar
• Smith, Linda Tuhiwai. 2012. Decolonizing Methodologies. London: Zed Books.
   Google Scholar
• Sorfleet, Andy. 2005. “Sex Workers Alliance of Vancouver: End of an Era.” SWAV: Sex Workers Alliance of Vancouver. Accessed November 25, 2015. No longer at http://www.walnet.org.swav/index/html
   Google Scholar
• Spinuzzi, Clay. 2005. “The Methodology of Participatory Design.” Technical Communication 52 (2): 163–174.
   Web of Science ®Google Scholar
• SPOC: Sex Professionals of Canada. 2013. “Past Events and Political Actions.” Spoc.ca. Accessed November 25, 2015. http://www.spoc.ca/past.html
   Google Scholar
• Strega, Susan, Caitlin Janzen, Jeannie Morgan, Leslie Brown, Robina Thomas, and Jeannine Carriére. 2014. “Never Innocent Victims: Street Sex Workers in Canadian Print Media.” Violence Against Women 20 (1): 6–25.
   PubMed Web of Science ®Google Scholar
• SWOP: Sex Workers Outreach Project. 2015. Accessed November 25, 2015. http://www.swopusa.org
   Google Scholar
• TCPS 2: Canadian Institutes of Health Research, Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council of Canada, and Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada. 2014. Tri-Council Policy Statement: Ethical Conduct for Research Involving Humans. December.
   Google Scholar
• TRC: Truth and Reconciliation Commission of Canada. 2015a. Honouring the Truth, Reconciling for the Future: Summary of the Final Report of the Truth and Reconciliation Commission of Canada. Ottawa, Canada: Truth and Reconciliation Commission of Canada. Accessed November 25, 2015. http://www.trc.ca/websites/trcinstitution/File/2015/Honouring_the_Truth_Reconciling_for_the_Future_July_23_2015.pdf
   Google Scholar
• TRC: Truth and Reconciliation Commission of Canada. 2015b. “National Research Centre on Indian Residential Schools.” June 21. Accessed November 25, 2015. http://www.trc.ca/websites/trcinstitution/index.php?p=815
   Google Scholar
• van der Muelen, Emily. 2011. “Action Research with Sex Workers: Dismantling Barriers and Building Bridges.” Action Research 9 (4): 370–384.
   Web of Science ®Google Scholar
• Wagner, Sally Roesch. 1989. “The Roots of Oppression is the Loss of Memory: The Iroquois and the Early Feminist Vision.” Akwesasne Notes: 11–13.
   Google Scholar
• Warschauer, Mark. 2003. Technology and Social Inclusion: Rethinking the Digital Divide. Cambridge, MA: MIT Press.
   Google Scholar
• WHO: World Health Organization. 2005. Toolkit for Targeted HIV Prevention and Care in Sex Work Settings. Geneva, Switzerland: Department of HIV/AIDS. Accessed November 25, 2015. http://whqlibdoc.who.int/publications/2005/9241592966.pdf
   Google Scholar
• Wilson, Shawn. 2008. Research is Ceremony: Indigenous Research Methods. Winnipeg: Fernwood Publishing.
   Google Scholar
• Yee, Jessica, ed. 2011. Feminism for REAL: Deconstructing the Academic Industrial Complex of Feminism. Ottawa, ON: Canadian Centre for Policy Alternatives.
   Google Scholar